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( 700s BC - 690s BC - 680s BC - 670s BC - 660s BC - 650s BC - 640s BC - 630s BC - 620s BC - 610s BC - 600s BC - other decades)

( 2nd millennium BC3rd millennium BC 2nd millennium BC 1st millennium BC other millennia) Events Second dynasty of Babylon First Bantu migrations from west Africa Hittites Old Kingdom in Anatolia ( 1900 BC) Civilization in Palestine ( 1800 BC) Middle Kingdom in Egypt ( 2052 - 1st millennium BC2nd millennium BC 1st millennium BC 1st millennium AD other millennia) Events The Iron Age began in Western Europe Egypt declined as a major power The Tanakh was written Buddhism was founded Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon and created the Persian Empire - 1st millennium AD)

1 Events

• Scythians arrived in AsiaThe continent of Asia is defined by subtracting Europe and Africa from the great land mass of Africa-Eurasia. The boundaries are vague, especially between Asia and Europe: Asia and Africa meet somewhere near the Suez Canal. The boundary between Asia and E
• Collapse of SusaSee Susa, Italy for the city in Piemont. Susa (or Shushan was an ancient city of the Babylonian, Persian and Parthian empires, located about 150 miles east of the Tigris River in the southeastern portion of the modern nation of Iran. Today, the ancient ci, end of Elamite EmpireThe ancient Elamite Empire lay to the east of Sumer and Akkad, in what is now southwestern Iran. The Elamites called their country haltamtu or hallatamti which was translated as Elam by the neighboring Akkadians. The high country of Elam was later more an
• Assyrians conquer Egypt ( 674 BC - 670 BC)
• Collapse of Nineveh, end of Assyria ( 612 BC)
• Accordign to the tradition, Japanese capital founded
• Zoroastrianism founded

2 Significant persons

• Hezekiah of the Kingdom of Judah (reigned 715 - 687 BC).
• Sennacherib, King of Assyria and conqueror of Babylon ( 705 - 681 BC).
• Gyges of Lydia (reigned 687 - 652 BC).
• Manasseh of Judah (reigned 687 - 643 BC).
• Esarhaddon, King of Assyria and conqueror of Egypt (reigned 681 - 669 BC).
• Archilochus of Thasos, poet (c. 680 - 645 BC).
• Josiah of the Kingdom of Judah (reigned 641- 609 BC).
• Stesichorus of Sicily, lyric poet (c. 640- 555 BC).
• Solon of Athens, one of the Seven Sages of Greece ( 638 - 558 BC).
• Thales of Miletus, Greek mathematician. ( 635 - 543 BC).
• Sappho of Lesbos, Ancient Greek poet.
• Zarathushtra, founding figure of Zoroastrianism.